Stephen A. Smith

Sylvia Plath can very easily be considered one of the brightest minds in all of confessional poetry. She wrote hundreds of poems in her lifetime and three books: “The Colossus”, “Ariel”, and “The Bell Jar”. Despite all of her brilliance, she was plagued with a sea of mental illnesses. “The Bell Jar” was written to chronicle the events that occurred before and after her first suicide attempt. Her most famous poem, “Daddy”, mentions how she tried to join her father in death. There is even a…

The main character Winston Smith in “1984” resembles a divergent character, separating his path and goals away from societies’. This is clearly shown from the moment he committed a thought crime, a specific type of crime recognized sometime in the future by the Thought Police. Winston begins to talk to himself stating, “The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others…

Dan Dougherty Hist 489 Leonard 12/12/14 Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life is the product of a meticulously researched effort by Nicholas Phillipson to chronicle the entirety of Adam Smith’s life outside of just what information scholars have been able to glean from Smith’s few academic writings. Phillipson reconstructs Smith’s intellectual ancestry and explains what influenced Smith, and what Smith in turn gave to the rapidly changing philosophical culture of…

My Chemical Romance: Possible Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee My Chemical Romance first started making music in New Jersey in 2001. Later, the next year they made their first album called “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love,” produced by Eyeball Records (AllMusic). The band ended up leaving that record company for Reprise Records the following year, and also created their second album “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (AllMusic).” In the upcoming year they had to replace the…

My Chemical Romance began as a band shortly after the attacks on the World Trade center on September 9, 2001. Gerard Way, the lead singer, realized that life was too short to wait, and immediately began forming My Chemical Romance with the band’s original drummer, Matt Pelissier. Soon after, Gerard recruited Ray Toro to play the guitar and his younger brother, Mikey Way, to play bass. Mikey Way was actually the person to come up with the band’s infamous name after being inspired by seeing the…

Sylvia Plath, a poet and novelist from after world war II that had written nine books in her time and many different poems as well was was published by her ex husband after she died. Sylvia lived a short life of 30 years, but left an ongoing impact in the world before she left. She was born in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts but then later moved to London where she ended up having two children with Ted Hughes and later died February 11, 1963 of a tragic suicide. Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist,…

When you make a commitment, especially one to yourself, you begin to strengthen your mind in ways that opens new possibility. Without cutting corners, no excuses, and no games. Once you look at the overall picture of what you seek to achieve within your life, you gain what is called “tunnel vision” which, nothing seems to be impossible. However, if your focus is on getting through the day, and thinking about what’s for dinner, just passing this semester only in college, or getting any job then…

In his book Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire, William Cavanaugh represents four main points facing Christians values today in regards to consumerism and how individuals have become since modern times have evolved in the act of purchasing interactions. In many aspects, corporations have outsourced production overseas leaving little to no connection between them and the buyers. In this, an effect to acquire the most profit in a transaction, as outsourcing to cheaper cultures. How do…

It has become clear that by studying the interactions between the states and the market but the two have some hold on each other. While Smith argues that the role of economy is to self regulate and promote competition and the role of the state is to protect the public stay removed from the market system, Marx believes that the states should act as a mediator in the markets where the market is dependent on the aggregate household behavior. Keynes argues that a free market without any intervention…

Why We’re All Poor When man first walked out of Africa, it marked both a cultural and technological revolution. From 10,000 BCE onwards, man learned to harness the power of fire, bone, stone, and even animal hides and natural dyes. In this time, however, arose what some people claim to be the greatest of human achievements: Capitalism. In fact, the earliest records of trade for profit come from the Indus River Valley civilization, which formed in what is now eastern India more than a thousand…